Cookie Policy

What is a Cookie?

Cookies are created when a user's browser loads a particular website. The website sends information to the browser which then creates a text file. Every time the user goes back to the same website, cookies helps to improve user experience of the website by remembering your last pages visited and your search prefrences and settings.

Cookies also help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

What Cookies do we use?

The following table lists the cookies used on this website and sets out the name, function, duration and origin of each. The social networking cookies function through integration with 3rd party web sites, but are included here for completeness as this functionality is fairly integral within our web site.

Name

Function

Duration

Origin

Random e.g. 6cbc5627102ac00d910eb6ea8658d4a8

Visitor session

Session Cookie

This Domain

_utma

Google Analytics

2 yrs

This Domain

_utmb

Google Analytics

30 mins

This Domain

_utmc

Google Analytics

Session

This Domain

_utmz

Google Analytics

18 mths

This Domain

__unam

Performance Checking

9 mths

starberry.com

Channel ID

Google Analytics

No Expiry

google-analytics.com

Channel ID

Google Analytics

No Expiry

google.com

NID

Google Analytics

No Expiry

google.com

GALX

Google Analytics

1 hr

accounts.google.com

GAPS

Google Analytics

2 yrs

accounts.google.com

ana_svc

Social Bookmarking

1 yr

addthis.com

AT_last_pub_53092626

Social Bookmarking

12 hrs

addthis.com

bt2

Social Bookmarking

9 mths

addthis.com

di

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

addthis.com

dt

Social Bookmarking

1 mths

addthis.com

loc

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

addthis.com

siteaud

Social Bookmarking

10 yrs

addthis.com

__atuvc

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

addthis.com

__utma

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

addthis.com

__utmz

Social Bookmarking

6 mths

addthis.com

ssh

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

addthis.com

sshs

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

addthis.com

ssc

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

addthis.com

uid

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

addthis.com

uit

Social Bookmarking

1 mth

addthis.com

uvc

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

addthis.com

anj

Social Bookmarking

3 mths

adnxs.com

sess

Social Bookmarking

1 mth

adnxs.com

uuid2

Social Bookmarking

3 mths

adnxs.com

AA002

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

atdmt.com

MUID

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

atdmt.com

id

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

doubleclick.net

datr

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

facebook.com

Name

Function

Duration

Origin

reg_ext_ref

Social Bookmarking

Session

facebook.com

reg_fb_gate

Social Bookmarking

Session

facebook.com

reg_fb_ref

Social Bookmarking

Session

facebook.com

Local storage

Social Bookmarking

No Expiry

facebook.com

ck

Social Bookmarking

3 yrs

go.affec.tv

oo

Social Bookmarking

3 yrs

go.affec.tv

pt

Social Bookmarking

3 yrs

go.affec.tv

Channel ID

Social Bookmarking

No Expiry

gstatic.com

IMRID

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

imrworldwide.com

__qca

Social Bookmarking

18 mths

linkedin.com

__utma

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

linkedin.com

__utmb

Social Bookmarking

1.5 hrs

linkedin.com

__utmc

Social Bookmarking

Session

linkedin.com

__utmv

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

linkedin.com

__utmz

Social Bookmarking

18 mths

linkedin.com

bcookie

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

linkedin.com

lang

Social Bookmarking

Session

linkedin.com

lidc

Social Bookmarking

25 hrs

linkedin.com

JSESSIONID

Social Bookmarking

Session

linkedin.com

L1l

Social Bookmarking

Session

linkedin.com

X-LI-IDC

Social Bookmarking

Session

linkedin.com

bscookie

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

linkedin.com

leo_auth_token

Social Bookmarking

30 mins

linkedin.com

visit

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

linkedin.com

Local Storage

Social Bookmarking

No Expiry

linkedin.com

uuid

Social Bookmarking

1 yr

mathtag.com

acs

Social Bookmarking

6 mths

media6degrees.com

clid

Social Bookmarking

6 mths

media6degrees.com

ipinfo

Social Bookmarking

6 mths

media6degrees.com

mc

Social Bookmarking

18 mths

quantserve.com

UID

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

scorecardresearch.com

UIDR

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

scorecardresearch.com

_twitter_sess

Social Bookmarking

Session

twitter.com

external_referer

Social Bookmarking

1 mth

twitter.com

guest_id

Social Bookmarking

2 yrs

twitter.com

Channel ID

Social Bookmarking

No Expiry

youtube.com

_ga

Google Analytics

2 years

This Domain

_gid

Google Analytics

24 hours

This Domain

gdpr-cookies

GDPR Cookie

1 day

This Domain

Restricting or deleting cookies

By default all cookies are active on this web site for the best user experience. Please note that buy turning off cookies in your browser you will affect the core functionality of the website and the social sharing options will not be available.However, if you wish to deactivate or delete selected cookies your web browser may provide options to do this via the Help menu option.For a useful resource on the subject of cookies visit www.allaboutcookies.org, which provides good general advise on how you can manage cookies on your computer.